Amid ongoing questions about the involvement of his associates
with Russian officials during the campaign and about the impartiality of the
Republican congressman leading one of the probes into the matter, Donald Trump went on a twitter rant Monday
night, calling out an old foe -- the Clintons -- and blaming conservative
Republicans for his health care defeat.

In a series of tweets, Trump questioned the actions of the House
Intelligence Committee, asking why it isn't conducting a probe into the former
Democratic presidential nominee and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

"Why isn't the House Intelligence Committee looking into
the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian
speech money to Bill, the Hillary Russian "reset," praise of Russia
by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a hoax.
#MAGA!" wrote Trump in two consecutive posts.

The tweets were not the first instance in which Trump sought to
blame Hillary Clinton for a
deal between Russia's nuclear power agency and
a Canadian company. The non-partisan fact-checking organization Politifact has rated the
claim "Mostly False," citing Hillary Clinton's "lack of power to
approve or reject the deal."

Investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election
are being conducted in both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. The FBI is also
investigating any potential ties between Russian officials and Trump associates,
a story line Trump has called "fake news."

House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who worked on Trump's
transition team, is under fire for briefing the president on findings that left
Trump feeling "somewhat" vindicated before mentioning that
information to the committee. There were also calls for Nunes to step aside from
the Russia investigation after it emerged that he met a source on the White
House grounds a day before briefing Trump.

In a later tweet, Trump criticized the conservative House
Freedom Caucus for its efforts preventing the passage of the American Health
Care Act last week, his first major legislative test.

"The Republican House Freedom Caucus was able to snatch
defeat from the jaws of victory. After so many bad years they were ready for a
win!" wrote Trump, running counter to his declaration Friday that he would
not "speak badly about anybody within the party" and his claim that
he preferred for the Affordable Care Act to
remain law so that it could "implode" and "explode."

He referred to that position again Monday in an additional
tweet, saying, "The Democrats will make a deal with me on
healthcare as soon as ObamaCare folds - not long. Do not worry, we are in very
good shape!"